Overview

These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-generated literature through the science of "bitistics." "Lem, a science fiction Bach, plays in this book a googleplex of variations on his basic themes" (New York Times Book Review). Translated by Marc E. Heine. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

ISBN-13

9780151441181

ISBN-10

0151441189

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$15.95

Format

Hardcover

Pages

176 pages

Publisher

Harcourt

Published On

1984-09-01



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